The Stump cabin was also the home of the first white woman who lived in Dallas county. Early in the year 1846,
perhaps in February, Miss Mary Stump came and kept house in it for her three brothers, until their father, Henry
Stump, and the rest of his family came on soon afterward.

She has the honor, also, of being the first white woman married in the county, and hers was the first
marriage ceremony performed within the county limits.

She was united in marriage with
George Haworth, on the second day of September, 1847, by J. C. Corbell, Esq., who was the first justice of
the peace to perform such a ceremony in the county, and this was his first experience in that line.

Whether this marriage occurred in the Stump cabin, or in the new hewed log house of the bride's father, we have not been able to
ascertain definitely.

The bride and groom were of even ages, each twenty-four years, and were nearly of like dates as early settlers of the county, as Mr. Haworth also came early in 1846, and settled
within the limits of Van Meter township, where he and his affianced bride lived in prosperity and comfort and then moved to a new home, about two
miles north of Adel.

source - The History of Dallas County, Iowa 1879; Publisher: Union Historical Company

Dallas
County Early Marriages

1848

Dallas
County Courthouse, Adel IA

Groom's
Name

Bride's
Name

Date

Bennett, John

Workman, Mary Ann

14 Nov 1848

Brummett, Calvin

Carter, Martha E.

24 Sept 1848

Corbell, Joseph

Black, Amanda

06 Feb 1848

Ellis, Isaac

Stump, Margaret

25 Dec 1847

Franklin, George

Keeney, Elizabeth

14 Sep 1848

Haworth, George

Stump. Mary

05 Dec 1847

McKnight, George R.

Keith, Julia Ann

18 Aug 1848

Morrison, James

Miller, Betty Jane

14 Nov 1848

Osborne, Charles J.

Wade, Elizabeth

28 Sep 1848

Randolph, James

Confair, Elizabeth A.

24 Dec 1848

Scovell, Stephen K.

Butler, Frances G.

06 Jul 1848

Warren, John

Canfield, Rhoda

26 Sep 1848

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